Avian Life

The Goose with Teeth? Nature’s Hidden Surprise
Think geese are harmless grazers? Look again. Inside this beak lies a nightmare you weren’t ready for. Those aren’t teeth—at least not in the mammalian sense—but cartilaginous serrations called tomia, and they line both the beak and the tongue.
These structures help geese grip slippery prey like fish, crustaceans, or aquatic vegetation. The backward-pointing spikes on the tongue? Pure evolutionary genius—designed to trap food and never let it go.
Nature doesn’t need to scream to be terrifying. Sometimes, it hisses.